Mike Lee

As statistics were released on Wednesday disclosing that New Zealanders imported 2566 more cars this June than last June, an Auckland Council committee debated long & hard whether to pay a deposit of up to $25 million to import 17 new-style rail vehicles to meet anticipated higher rail patronage 2 years away.

New Auckland mayor Phil Goff added an item yesterday to the council governing body’s second business meeting, scheduled for Thursday – “a raft of new & improved accountability tools to significantly strengthen scrutiny of council-controlled organisations (CCOs), including Auckland Transport”.

After telling new Auckland mayor Phil Goff she’d thought her job in transport was finished with the signing off of the city rail link partnership and the Auckland transport alignment project with the Government, Cllr Christine Fletcher has told Mr Goff he would be her best replacement on the Auckland Transport board.

“I will accept in good faith,” Auckland councillor Mike Lee told new mayor Phil in a response on 31 October, “your questionnaire that you ask me to complete as a genuine quest for knowledge, despite you already making your own preferences known in such a public way.” Sugar, but not sweet. Cllr Lee had learned […]

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